Subject: Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro - Chat Transcript from EDET group meeting 9-20-10 8pm
Stephanie Hicklin:hi everyone
christine:hello
Stephanie Hicklin:would you all like me to get a free conference call line real quick?
christine:i am ok typing but how about everyone else?
Mandy Burdette:it doesnt matter to me
Stephanie Hicklin:me either
Mandy Burdette:typing is fine
Melanie Walling:I'm good either way
Mandy Burdette:how do you make the chat screen bigger?
Mandy Burdette:thanks!
christine:much better
Melanie Walling:That works
Stephanie Hicklin:so...
Mandy Burdette:we need to come up with a team name!
Stephanie Hicklin:how do we want to start
Stephanie Hicklin:sounds good!
Mandy Burdette:any ideas?
christine:didn't we have info we have to type up and send in as well
Stephanie Hicklin:i need to pull up the instructions
Mandy Burdette:yea one of us have to email dr wissick
Melanie Walling:Yes, we have to let her know how we will communicate, etc
Stephanie Hicklin:i just came flying in the door at 7:55, haha
Mandy Burdette:we need to know how we are going to communicate, how we will present weekly work, and...
Melanie Walling:I will do that much if no one else does
Mandy Burdette:our topic ideas
christine:thanks melanie....if you don't mind
christine:how about 4 amigos ...since she said we could do esol
Mandy Burdette:sounds good!
Stephanie Hicklin:yep sounds good to me
Melanie Walling:sounds good to me
Mandy Burdette:i like the idea of the wikispace to display our progress
christine:I do too...but I like communication on here
Mandy Burdette:me too! i like live chat better
christine:live plus gives us a record in case we need to review something
Melanie Walling:I like the live chat. But we also need a way to show our times when we are working on our project
Stephanie Hicklin:yes, i like meeting here but using wikis to store everything
Mandy Burdette:i think we post the time sheet on wikispace
Stephanie Hicklin:have you all used specific wikis before?
Mandy Burdette:im using it in my other class....
Stephanie Hicklin:i used one last year for work that was free, and it was really nice
Stephanie Hicklin:i need to remember the name...
christine:i have a couple...one for work..one for the other class
Melanie Walling:I'm using wikispaces now for a class
Mandy Burdette:i can set one up for us and send everyone the link and password
Stephanie Hicklin:wetpaint is what we used
Stephanie Hicklin:i'm sure they are all pretty much the same though
Melanie Walling:This is what we have to submit for tonight and I will send it:1- How you will communicate2- How you will present your weekly work3- "Brainstormed" ideas for a topic - based on a need.
christine:easy enough
Mandy Burdette:ive only used wikispaces....but yall let me know whatever yall want
Stephanie Hicklin:ok, sounds like we alredy have 2 of the three
Melanie Walling:I'm good just let me know
Mandy Burdette:so we will communicate through adobe connect and present weekly work on a wiki
christine:do we want to do early childhood esol students
christine:as a target
Melanie Walling:Ok so now a opic
Stephanie Hicklin:i have an idea that ties all of our backgrounds together
Melanie Walling:Let's hear it:)
Mandy Burdette:lets hear ot
Stephanie Hicklin:my background is early intervention
Stephanie Hicklin:we could have a child with special needs whose family speaks, say Spanish, who is transitioning into a special needs classroom at age 3
Stephanie Hicklin:that covers EI, ESOL, special ed, and early childhood
christine:sounds good
Mandy Burdette:that is exactly the situation of a student in my class! she's 4 though but was in school at 3
Melanie Walling:Wow
Stephanie Hicklin:haha
Stephanie Hicklin:well, i have helped with transition plans with lots of ESOL families
christine:me too...our school has 34% esol
Stephanie Hicklin:wow! where are you?
christine:bluffton
christine:near hilton head
Melanie Walling:i have not had a lot of experience with ESOL but this summer I tookthe Sheltered Instruction workshop
Mandy Burdette:so if that's our need...will the book topic be learning to speak english?!
Stephanie Hicklin:wow, i am in rock hill, how about everyone else
Mandy Burdette:im in columbia
Melanie Walling:I'm in Aiken- Beech Island to be exact
christine:book topic could be first days at a us school
Stephanie Hicklin:yes
Melanie Walling:True, a small child will need simple things like bathroom and teacher and desk.....
Mandy Burdette:sounds good to me
Stephanie Hicklin:yep
christine:name the kid and then be "..."'s new school
Mandy Burdette:yall will have to help me with spanish!!!
Melanie Walling:Carlos
Stephanie Hicklin:ok, haha we will
Stephanie Hicklin:ok,
Stephanie Hicklin:Mandy, just watch Dora a few times, lol
Melanie Walling:LOL
christine:so....Carlos' New School
Mandy Burdette:haha
christine:lol
Melanie Walling::) Stephanie Hicklin: I think this is great Stephanie Hicklin: so what is Carlos's special need? Melanie Walling: me too 14 minutes and we have accomplished much. Melanie Walling: He has Autism christine: Since the book can have hot links...we could compare us and mexico in some of them Mandy Burdette: so now that we know what we're doing....should we decide on jobs? Mandy Burdette: i like that idea christine Stephanie Hicklin: autism is good, tons of resources christine: mine app was for the assessor christine: my christine: not mine christine: lol Stephanie Hicklin: mine was for content or multimedia Mandy Burdette: whats the assessor? christine: evaluator Mandy Burdette: mine was the content but this topic isnt familar to me Melanie Walling: I'll do whatever, but I'm better with needs assessment or content christine: we need a project manager of sorts Stephanie Hicklin: ok, i'm going to go copy the descriptions so we can look together Mandy Burdette: i wouldnt mind doing the production manager/writer/proofreader? Mandy Burdette: i didnt understand the difference between the graphics designer and the multimedia producer christine: i think it is the same idea..depending on project Stephanie Hicklin: Graphics designer Stephanie Hicklin: # Multimedia producer - you have what it takes to put it together and teach the others about the process. Mandy Burdette: ok well since there are 5 jobs i guess we could combine that into one since we have 4 people Stephanie Hicklin: Content expert - Stephanie Hicklin: Production manager, writer and proofreader : you feel you are a leader and can get the group to work together sharing skills. You also have good writing skills and are good at proofreading. Stephanie Hicklin: # Assessment or evaluation expert Stephanie Hicklin: sounds good, sorry, i needed to read them again Stephanie Hicklin: so we should put graphics and multimedia together? christine: so graphics, content, manager and evaluator Mandy Burdette: ill do the production/writer/proofreader if thats ok with everyone Stephanie Hicklin: sure Melanie Walling: that's good I'd like content? christine: two down Stephanie Hicklin: ok, so i'll take graphics and christine you want evaluator, right? christine: sounds like a plan Melanie Walling: Cool:) Stephanie Hicklin: ok, i work for the university and have access to some pretty cool software, so that should work well Melanie Walling: Awesome Mandy Burdette: quick ?... Stephanie Hicklin: ok Mandy Burdette: do we each write our own individual final report or do we do it as a group Stephanie Hicklin: do you want me to pull it up and share my screen? christine: sure Stephanie Hicklin: ok give me just a second Mandy Burdette: sure christine: sounds like we have a great group Mandy Burdette: is there a way we can save our conversations bc in the email dr wissick sent today it sounded like she wanted these posted on our page Stephanie Hicklin: can y'all see that? Stephanie Hicklin: We can cut and paste it into our wiki Melanie Walling: I saw it for a split secone Mandy Burdette: its just purple Melanie Walling: second Stephanie Hicklin: did y'all see it then? Melanie Walling: Yes, we did Mandy Burdette: yea christine: i did Stephanie Hicklin: ok, good Mandy Burdette: i think we might just do one altogether Melanie Walling: I think that is what is expected Stephanie Hicklin: i saw that we have to do a screencast at the end and we just got Camtasia which is really cool screen cast software :) Melanie Walling: Cool christine: great! Mandy Burdette: good! Stephanie Hicklin: so what are our tasks til next time? Mandy Burdette: has anyone looked at the needs assessment document Melanie Walling: I have not Stephanie Hicklin: not in detail, i scanned it last week Mandy Burdette: That is what's due by next Tues. I'm guessing we just fill it in with our own info. Mandy Burdette: maybe we should look it over and plan to meet again to complete it Stephanie Hicklin: ok, so do y'all want to meet again towards the end of the week? christine: sure Stephanie Hicklin: ok, what about the wiki, who will set that up? someone may have already said that and I missed. Mandy Burdette: we can do that for the needs assessment if yall want Melanie Walling: I'd really prefer Sunday after noon if we can Mandy Burdette: i can set it up if yall tell me what site Mandy Burdette: Sunday @ 8? christine: sunday works for me Stephanie Hicklin: sunday is perfect. Melanie Walling: 7:30???? Mandy Burdette: 7:30 is good christine: ok Stephanie Hicklin: 7:30 not good for me Melanie Walling: i get up at 5:30:( Stephanie Hicklin: won't be home from church til right at 7:30. Mandy Burdette: wikispaces is all im familiar with...is that wiki ok for everyone? Stephanie Hicklin: and i have to get my kids in the bed christine: wiki is ok here Melanie Walling: wiki is good Stephanie Hicklin: wikispaces is fine with me too Mandy Burdette: ok great Melanie Walling: So, sunday @8:00? Mandy Burdette: so who is going to email dr wissick tonight? christine: i can do that Mandy Burdette: 8:00 is good for me Stephanie Hicklin: i'm sorry melanie, we are doing dave ramsey financial freedom, LOL Stephanie Hicklin: and I can't miss it Mandy Burdette: i heard that is awesome Melanie Walling: Sounds great! MY friends have done it too:) Stephanie Hicklin: it is awesome! Stephanie Hicklin: so 8 is ok? Mandy Burdette: yep christine: works Melanie Walling: yea, I'm good Stephanie Hicklin: ok, i'll set up the adobe meeitng Mandy Burdette: christine did you say you would email dr wissick? christine: i can Mandy Burdette: ok....can someone save this conversation too until wiki is up...im not sure how to do it! Stephanie Hicklin: yes, I'll do it right now. christine: email it to me if you don't mind stephanie Melanie Walling: That's good, I don't know how to do that Mandy Burdette: sounds like we have a great plan and a great group! christine: that way I can pull to email dr wissick
Subject: Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro - Chat Transcript from EDET group meeting 9-20-10 8pm
Stephanie Hicklin:hi everyone
christine:hello
Stephanie Hicklin:would you all like me to get a free conference call line real quick?
christine:i am ok typing but how about everyone else?
Mandy Burdette:it doesnt matter to me
Stephanie Hicklin:me either
Mandy Burdette:typing is fine
Melanie Walling:I'm good either way
Mandy Burdette:how do you make the chat screen bigger?
Mandy Burdette:thanks!
christine:much better
Melanie Walling:That works
Stephanie Hicklin:so...
Mandy Burdette:we need to come up with a team name!
Stephanie Hicklin:how do we want to start
Stephanie Hicklin:sounds good!
Mandy Burdette:any ideas?
christine:didn't we have info we have to type up and send in as well
Stephanie Hicklin:i need to pull up the instructions
Mandy Burdette:yea one of us have to email dr wissick
Melanie Walling:Yes, we have to let her know how we will communicate, etc
Stephanie Hicklin:i just came flying in the door at 7:55, haha
Mandy Burdette:we need to know how we are going to communicate, how we will present weekly work, and...
Melanie Walling:I will do that much if no one else does
Mandy Burdette:our topic ideas
christine:thanks melanie....if you don't mind
christine:how about 4 amigos ...since she said we could do esol
Mandy Burdette:sounds good!
Stephanie Hicklin:yep sounds good to me
Melanie Walling:sounds good to me
Mandy Burdette:i like the idea of the wikispace to display our progress
christine:I do too...but I like communication on here
Mandy Burdette:me too! i like live chat better
christine:live plus gives us a record in case we need to review something
Melanie Walling:I like the live chat. But we also need a way to show our times when we are working on our project
Stephanie Hicklin:yes, i like meeting here but using wikis to store everything
Mandy Burdette:i think we post the time sheet on wikispace
Stephanie Hicklin:have you all used specific wikis before?
Mandy Burdette:im using it in my other class....
Stephanie Hicklin:i used one last year for work that was free, and it was really nice
Stephanie Hicklin:i need to remember the name...
christine:i have a couple...one for work..one for the other class
Melanie Walling:I'm using wikispaces now for a class
Mandy Burdette:i can set one up for us and send everyone the link and password
Stephanie Hicklin:wetpaint is what we used
Stephanie Hicklin:i'm sure they are all pretty much the same though
Melanie Walling:This is what we have to submit for tonight and I will send it:1- How you will communicate2- How you will present your weekly work3- "Brainstormed" ideas for a topic - based on a need.
christine:easy enough
Mandy Burdette:ive only used wikispaces....but yall let me know whatever yall want
Stephanie Hicklin:ok, sounds like we alredy have 2 of the three
Melanie Walling:I'm good just let me know
Mandy Burdette:so we will communicate through adobe connect and present weekly work on a wiki
christine:do we want to do early childhood esol students
christine:as a target
Melanie Walling:Ok so now a opic
Stephanie Hicklin:i have an idea that ties all of our backgrounds together
Melanie Walling:Let's hear it:)
Mandy Burdette:lets hear ot
Stephanie Hicklin:my background is early intervention
Stephanie Hicklin:we could have a child with special needs whose family speaks, say Spanish, who is transitioning into a special needs classroom at age 3
Stephanie Hicklin:that covers EI, ESOL, special ed, and early childhood
christine:sounds good
Mandy Burdette:that is exactly the situation of a student in my class! she's 4 though but was in school at 3
Melanie Walling:Wow
Stephanie Hicklin:haha
Stephanie Hicklin:well, i have helped with transition plans with lots of ESOL families
christine:me too...our school has 34% esol
Stephanie Hicklin:wow! where are you?
christine:bluffton
christine:near hilton head
Melanie Walling:i have not had a lot of experience with ESOL but this summer I tookthe Sheltered Instruction workshop
Mandy Burdette:so if that's our need...will the book topic be learning to speak english?!
Stephanie Hicklin:wow, i am in rock hill, how about everyone else
Mandy Burdette:im in columbia
Melanie Walling:I'm in Aiken- Beech Island to be exact
christine:book topic could be first days at a us school
Stephanie Hicklin:yes
Melanie Walling:True, a small child will need simple things like bathroom and teacher and desk.....
Mandy Burdette:sounds good to me
Stephanie Hicklin:yep
christine:name the kid and then be "..."'s new school
Mandy Burdette:yall will have to help me with spanish!!!
Melanie Walling:Carlos
Stephanie Hicklin:ok, haha we will
Stephanie Hicklin:ok,
Stephanie Hicklin:Mandy, just watch Dora a few times, lol
Melanie Walling:LOL
christine:so....Carlos' New School
Mandy Burdette:haha
christine:lol
Melanie Walling::)
Stephanie Hicklin: I think this is great
Stephanie Hicklin: so what is Carlos's special need?
Melanie Walling: me too 14 minutes and we have accomplished much.
Melanie Walling: He has Autism
christine: Since the book can have hot links...we could compare us and mexico in some of them
Mandy Burdette: so now that we know what we're doing....should we decide on jobs?
Mandy Burdette: i like that idea christine
Stephanie Hicklin: autism is good, tons of resources
christine: mine app was for the assessor
christine: my
christine: not mine
christine: lol
Stephanie Hicklin: mine was for content or multimedia
Mandy Burdette: whats the assessor?
christine: evaluator
Mandy Burdette: mine was the content but this topic isnt familar to me
Melanie Walling: I'll do whatever, but I'm better with needs assessment or content
christine: we need a project manager of sorts
Stephanie Hicklin: ok, i'm going to go copy the descriptions so we can look together
Mandy Burdette: i wouldnt mind doing the production manager/writer/proofreader?
Mandy Burdette: i didnt understand the difference between the graphics designer and the multimedia producer
christine: i think it is the same idea..depending on project
Stephanie Hicklin: Graphics designer
Stephanie Hicklin: # Multimedia producer - you have what it takes to put it together and teach the others about the process.
Mandy Burdette: ok well since there are 5 jobs i guess we could combine that into one since we have 4 people
Stephanie Hicklin: Content expert -
Stephanie Hicklin: Production manager, writer and proofreader : you feel you are a leader and can get the group to work together sharing skills. You also have good writing skills and are good at proofreading.
Stephanie Hicklin: # Assessment or evaluation expert
Stephanie Hicklin: sounds good, sorry, i needed to read them again
Stephanie Hicklin: so we should put graphics and multimedia together?
christine: so graphics, content, manager and evaluator
Mandy Burdette: ill do the production/writer/proofreader if thats ok with everyone
Stephanie Hicklin: sure
Melanie Walling: that's good I'd like content?
christine: two down
Stephanie Hicklin: ok, so i'll take graphics and christine you want evaluator, right?
christine: sounds like a plan
Melanie Walling: Cool:)
Stephanie Hicklin: ok, i work for the university and have access to some pretty cool software, so that should work well
Melanie Walling: Awesome
Mandy Burdette: quick ?...
Stephanie Hicklin: ok
Mandy Burdette: do we each write our own individual final report or do we do it as a group
Stephanie Hicklin: do you want me to pull it up and share my screen?
christine: sure
Stephanie Hicklin: ok give me just a second
Mandy Burdette: sure
christine: sounds like we have a great group
Mandy Burdette: is there a way we can save our conversations bc in the email dr wissick sent today it sounded like she wanted these posted on our page
Stephanie Hicklin: can y'all see that?
Stephanie Hicklin: We can cut and paste it into our wiki
Melanie Walling: I saw it for a split secone
Mandy Burdette: its just purple
Melanie Walling: second
Stephanie Hicklin: did y'all see it then?
Melanie Walling: Yes, we did
Mandy Burdette: yea
christine: i did
Stephanie Hicklin: ok, good
Mandy Burdette: i think we might just do one altogether
Melanie Walling: I think that is what is expected
Stephanie Hicklin: i saw that we have to do a screencast at the end and we just got Camtasia which is really cool screen cast software :)
Melanie Walling: Cool
christine: great!
Mandy Burdette: good!
Stephanie Hicklin: so what are our tasks til next time?
Mandy Burdette: has anyone looked at the needs assessment document
Melanie Walling: I have not
Stephanie Hicklin: not in detail, i scanned it last week
Mandy Burdette: That is what's due by next Tues. I'm guessing we just fill it in with our own info.
Mandy Burdette: maybe we should look it over and plan to meet again to complete it
Stephanie Hicklin: ok, so do y'all want to meet again towards the end of the week?
christine: sure
Stephanie Hicklin: ok, what about the wiki, who will set that up? someone may have already said that and I missed.
Mandy Burdette: we can do that for the needs assessment if yall want
Melanie Walling: I'd really prefer Sunday after noon if we can
Mandy Burdette: i can set it up if yall tell me what site
Mandy Burdette: Sunday @ 8?
christine: sunday works for me
Stephanie Hicklin: sunday is perfect.
Melanie Walling: 7:30????
Mandy Burdette: 7:30 is good
christine: ok
Stephanie Hicklin: 7:30 not good for me
Melanie Walling: i get up at 5:30:(
Stephanie Hicklin: won't be home from church til right at 7:30.
Mandy Burdette: wikispaces is all im familiar with...is that wiki ok for everyone?
Stephanie Hicklin: and i have to get my kids in the bed
christine: wiki is ok here
Melanie Walling: wiki is good
Stephanie Hicklin: wikispaces is fine with me too
Mandy Burdette: ok great
Melanie Walling: So, sunday @8:00?
Mandy Burdette: so who is going to email dr wissick tonight?
christine: i can do that
Mandy Burdette: 8:00 is good for me
Stephanie Hicklin: i'm sorry melanie, we are doing dave ramsey financial freedom, LOL
Stephanie Hicklin: and I can't miss it
Mandy Burdette: i heard that is awesome
Melanie Walling: Sounds great! MY friends have done it too:)
Stephanie Hicklin: it is awesome!
Stephanie Hicklin: so 8 is ok?
Mandy Burdette: yep
christine: works
Melanie Walling: yea, I'm good
Stephanie Hicklin: ok, i'll set up the adobe meeitng
Mandy Burdette: christine did you say you would email dr wissick?
christine: i can
Mandy Burdette: ok....can someone save this conversation too until wiki is up...im not sure how to do it!
Stephanie Hicklin: yes, I'll do it right now.
christine: email it to me if you don't mind stephanie
Melanie Walling: That's good, I don't know how to do that
Mandy Burdette: sounds like we have a great plan and a great group!
christine: that way I can pull to email dr wissick